Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> I can subscribe to individual channels on my satellite. I have to
>> subscribe to the basic networks, but the specialty channels can be
>> bought individually or I can get them in bundles. They keep shifting
>> the bundles around. You subscribe to one bundle to get a particular
>> channel and then find that it has been moved to a different one. If
>> there are two good channels in a bundle with 8 others, they will add
>> something and then split the bundle into two, putting one of the good
>> channels in one bundle and the other in the second bundle. That was
>> what they did when they started carrying Fox. The old bundle had 11
>> news stations. They split them into two bundles of six.
>
> The cable/sattellite companies awre masters of the bundle. Our cable
> company, Metgrocast, is upgrading the entire system to fiberoptics. In a
> few weeks we get new rates and new bundles. I have HD, but if I want the
> History Channela nd National Geographic in HD, they are part of a $5 bundle
> over the already $$$ HD package. If I want HD Net, that comes in another $5
> bundle with stiff I don't want.
>
> Just as bad is XM radio. I just got a new car with XM and a three month
> free trial. I can get music only for $10 or I can get talk and news for $10
> or both for $13 or so., even more for $17. How much can a person listen to?
> I still have time to decide, but I'm probably going for the mostly music.
>
>
>
Go for the music! I can't drive without my XM radio. We've had it since 2004

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